"Lost on the Frontline" is called the collaboration between the British newspaper The Guardian and Kaiser Health News, a non-profit news service specialized in health care.

The project aims to count, verify and pay tribute to all health care personnel who have lost their lives during the corona pandemic.

Doctors, nurses, ambulance staff, care assistants as well as cleaners and caretakers and administrators are included in the statistics. 

Publishes obituaries

On Saturday, figures with 586 names were released, which so far are in the Lost on the Frontlines database. To date, 100 memorial runs have been published in memory of deceased nurses, including a 47-year-old Brooklyn radiologist, a 70-year-old employee of a Rhode Island IVA department and a 58-year-old Ohio nurse.

The US public health agency, The Centers for Disease Control (CDC), has counted 368 deaths among health care professionals but admits the figure is too low. 

Information about the deceased is taken from family members, friends and colleagues, unions, media reporting and more.

Document working conditions

The reporters at Kaiser Health News and The Guardian verify all deaths individually by contacting family members, friends and employers. Over a dozen journalists and journalism students are included in the project.

Lost on the Frontline also aims to document the conditions in the workplaces of the nurses. According to Kaiser Health News, health care workers throughout the United States state, among other things, that a lack of communication has led to employees not being aware that they have worked with people who have been infected.

The death toll includes only healthcare professionals who may have been exposed to viruses while caring for patients with covid-19. According to The Guardian and Kaiser Health News, the figure is expected to rise.